Siri playing Fox News for an update?

Looks like Apple’s not providing any option to control news sources for one’s Daily Update. I read earlier today via MacWorld that’s Siri’s new connection through Google eliminated the NPR News feed. Apple apparently isn’t responding to comments or complaints about it. Guess I’m going to eliminate the “news” portion of Daily Update until there’s a better option.

I am enduring this issue as well. I had to say "play the headlines from NPR."

I am curious what drove this change, and if it was intended.

I usually ask Siri on my HomePod Mini to "Give me a daily update." It gives me the weather, what's on my calendar and then moves into NPR news. This morning, it was Fox and very loud. I told it to stop and then repeated the request. Second time around, it gave me NPR as expected.

To paraphrase Hanlan's Razor, "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by software bugs."

I haven't tried it on my Home Pod yet today. However, when I asked for a "Daily Briefing with NPR News" on my iPhone just now, it gave me the briefing. However, i did have to confirm after it gave me my calendar and the weather, that I wanted it to play the NPR headines. If I just asked it for a "Daily Briefing," it didn't offer any news at all.

I have updated to iOS 27 and Siri AI. I was impressed with how much better the briefing was for my personal information. It gave a better summary of my calendar and pulled some information from my email as well.

I tried the same thing numerous times today, but it defaults back to Fox News. Still trying to figure out how to get NPR to play.

FYI. I tested the Daily Briefing on my Home Pod this morning and got the expected NPR news.